Startup Open Club at Thirsty Barber, Paceville.
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A chat with Natalie Smolenski, a cultural anthropologist and philosopher who leads business development for a blockchain technology startup, Learning Machine.

The MITA Innovation Hub will start organising a series of informal Startup Open Club meetups for the local startup community.
Startup founders all have their unique skills, talents and experiences which could make a great difference to other aspiring entrepreneurs if transferred or shared socially in a cool, relaxed environment.
For each meetup we will be asking a startup to present a short 30-minute talk about some strength they have in a particular area, e.g. growth hacking, UI/UX, mobile app development frameworks, etc. The list is really endless. Each Meetup will be public and open to anyone from the startup community to attend.
The topic for the first edition of Startup Open Club is the differences between plan driven and agile methodologies, and when to use which in a startup environment. The speaker will be Patrick Streppel from YouStartIT#2 affiliate Miles and Games.